[Paleo Conservative]

So they also abolished an age of consent too. This means statutory rape laws will be the next to be ruled unconstitutional.

[weegee]

The homosexual agenda has been pushing for a norming of the age of consent laws (more vocally in England than in America). I said this as soon as the Supreme Court took the case. I was told by some troll defenders that I was throwing out a strawman argument.

Incrementalism is the liberal way.

I've always said that this will not end with "consenting adults". Adults and minors (who have reached age of consent or are near the age of consent...) will be engaging in homosexual sodomy.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Uh, no they didn't. Don't let your overactive imagination get carried away.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I dunno. I think they were making the sentence equal for heteros and homos.

[Old Professer]

If there's hair, it's fair?

[El Gato]

So they also abolished an age of consent too.

Well, not quite, what they did was hint that the ages of the participents in underage sex should be considered in the same manner whether the sex involved was homo or hetro.

However this is a very bad and dangerous thing. A young person's sexuality may be permanently "bent" by a slighter older person. If it's a boy and girl, no big deal, the younger one, wether that's the boy or the girl, can go on to a "normal" sex life, after recovering from a mistake. That will be much more difficult if the older one was a homosexual, but the younger was just well, young. This is esepcially true in the male homsexuality case, because boys mature later than girls, both sexually and otherwise. So the developemental/maturity differences between say 16 year old and 14 year old females might not be so large, but between a 16 year old young man and a 14 year old kid could be quite marked.

I think the court has gone off the deep end.

[Dimensio]

So they also abolished an age of consent too.

Um, no. See, Kansas has this law where age-of-consent crimes are treated as misdemeanors if all parties involved are within a certain age range. However, this law only was only applied to heterosexual relations. The USSC is saying that Kansas must now reevaluate this exclusivity in application in light of the sodomy ruling.

This is not a ruling invalidating age of consent. Kansas made a law based upon age of consent. They're being challenged to enforce it equally, and that's what this SC descision is about.